Posted on 01/20/2016 7:18:15 AM PST by BenLurkin
Militants raided a university in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, timing their attack to a ceremony at the school to ensure maximum casualties.
After security forces combed the campus block by block after the massacre, Mehmood Khan, provincial home minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, said 19 civilians were killed, along with four terrorists. He expects the number of civilian deaths to increase.
The attack took place at Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, Peshawar, less than 40 kilometers (25 miles) from where the Pakistan Taliban slayed 145 people, including 132 children, in a school attack in December 2014.
It's unclear whether the group was responsible for the Wednesday incident.
One Pakistan Taliban spokesman, Umar Mansoor, said the attack was in retaliation for military operations against the group. Mansoor was also the mastermind behind the December 2014 attack, Pakistan's DawnNews reported.
But another spokesman, Mohammad Khurrassani, from the Pakistan Taliban's central organization, disavowed any role.
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The Pakistan Taliban, formally known as Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, are separate from the Taliban in Afghanistan but hold close ties to them and to al Qaeda.
The TTP follows its own, different goals, but its tactics are the same as the Afghan Taliban’s. Its main target is the Pakistani military and the state, which it would like to overthrow and replace with Sharia law.
The TTP arose in the early 2000s when the Pakistani military began hunting diverse militant groups in the tribal regions near the Afghan border. In reaction, Pakistani militants with ties to the Afghan Taliban galvanized into a Taliban of their own.
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— Ann Coulter
This has been on TV news all morning, but this is the first I’ve seen it here.
Which is surprising as FR is usually up on all the latest news from all over. Thanks for posting it. I’d hate to see something like this ignored or taken for granted.
rktman scooped me at 7:11:53.
I searched titles; it must have ben right before then. Took me six minutes or so to put my post together, apparently. Seems like a long time — but maybe I’m getting old and slow.
Yeah, sometimes the title/headline search sucks and we end up with double posts. I was up early. LOL!
Is this killing a For Credit course at Pakistan University?
Possibly an elective. “An introducion to terrorism 101”.
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